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Monday, 7 June 2010

This one time, in boot camp...

...I decided to focus on photography. There were so many media I could have picked, but I wanted something I could guarantee to have time for, and my life is so busy right now I'm just not sure I'll have time to paint or cut or stick or scrap or sew. But hey, I might just return to the prompts with a different medium at some point later on :-)

My plan is to just experiment a bit, have some fun, try out some of the different settings, get out of auto mode, and pick my favourite shot for each prompt. And I'm maybe going to incorporate some of the things I've been learning from 12 Weeks To Better Photos. And I hope I'll make some progress with my photography skills through boot camp too!

So, ivory. My first thought was elephants, but my second was a piano keyboard - and as we don't have any elephants but we do have a keyboard, I went with that one:

Great shot Mel! I originally went with chess pieces but the good ones were already in the boxes somewhere never to be seen again and the little plastic travel set really wasn't doing it for me - the keyboard is a great choice!

...is what I speak. It describes what I actually say (nonsense, mostly) and how I say it (ie my accent, which is a mixture of all sorts - a bit of North of England, a bit of Irish, a bit of South West England, a lot of just me!) The word comes from my name, Mel, and the fact that I'm one-quarter Welsh. But there's not actually any Welsh in my accent. Go figure...